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Re: fsread

Facundo Arena has been quoted as saying:
> I've got another problem, when I try to boot the fsread example kernel,
> it doesn't detect my partition, I've read on the mailing list history
> that's because fsread takes the disk/partition names in freebsd format
> or something like that. I'm using linux on /dev/hda2 how I put that on
> DISK_NAME and PART_NAME?
> Thanks for all guys...

     /dev/hda2 is /dev/hd1s2.  BSD uses numbers instead of letters for
drives, so hda -> hd1.  The DOS partition number comes next.  It gets
prefixed with an `s'(*), so 2 -> s2.

steve

* The s is for `slice'.  BSD already had partitions, so they picked a
  different name.  I believe that SYSV had `slices' too, but I don't
  remember just what that was supposed to be.

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// stephen clawson				sclawson@cs.utah.edu
// university of utah
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